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Friday, January 16, 2009

Books / Sex re: The Creator of Wonder Woman and His BDSM Porn Collection...

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:45 PM

... that Paul posted about a few days ago.

Well, there's more about William Moulton Marston. Much more. Like his polyamorous marriage, his theories of feminist psychology, his invention of the lie-detector test, and his ideas about the psycho-social benefits of erotic bondage.

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Though Marston had described female nature as submissive, in his other writings and interviews he referred to submission to women as a noble and potentially world-saving practice, leading ideally to the establishment of a matriarchy, and did not shy away from the sexual implications of this:

"The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound ... Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society. ... Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element."

About male readers, he later wrote: "Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to, and they'll be proud to become her willing slaves"

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You kinky motherfucker.

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So, um, he's completely right. You got a problem with that?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM

Sounds .. pretty much dead on. Then again, I thought drow were hot when I was 14. Sign me up.

Posted by Cow on January 16, 2009 at 5:17 PM

@ 1. Nope. I'm pro.

Posted by Brendan Kiley on January 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM

God, I wish I were half as awesome as that guy was.

Posted by Greg on January 16, 2009 at 6:01 PM

something wrong on slog: cannot call up permalink to send this to a friend of mine who writes comic books. . . tech help? says internal server problem, try again later

Posted by Chicago Fan on January 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM

never mind, working now

Posted by Chicago Fan on January 16, 2009 at 6:09 PM

Lie detectors are pretty much bullshit, however:

"After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death in the late 1980s; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100." - Wikipedia

That's pretty notable too, especially considering the time period all three lived, worked and loved in.

Posted by PolySubMale on January 16, 2009 at 11:26 PM

Seriously, knowing all this stuff, I love Wonder Woman so much more now.

Posted by Greg on January 17, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Those early psycho... practitioners were so experimental... Seems like for a long time all you had to do was hang out a shingle and commit experimental incest on your time off.

Posted by Amelia on January 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM